Notes from a Newbie

Charles Hixson charleshixsn at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 8 18:27:59 UTC 2002


OK.  I've been avoiding an upgrade to what is identified as an alpha version, 
as I figured that someone a new to the language as I am should be 
conservative about which version he used.

On Monday 08 April 2002 10:01, you wrote:
> Charles,
>
> This annoyance was fixed in later versions of Squeak. I know it works in
> 3.2, but I am pretty sure it was fixed in 3.1.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Hixson" <charleshixsn at earthlink.net>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Notes from a Newbie
>
> > On Monday 08 April 2002 01:54, goran wrote:
> > > Charles Hixson <charleshixsn at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > It is a weakness of the Win95 Squeak implementation that the screen
> > > > cannot be resized.  Presumably there is some programmatic way to do
>
> this,
>
> > > > but if the containing window is resized, then ideally the colored
> > > > backgrounds, and the size of the working surface would be resized.
> > >
> > > Eh... I run Squeak at home on a Win98 machine and I can resize the
> > > window -
> > > I think I have been able to do that since the beginning of time. Or
> > > something.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I didn't understand what you meant...
> > >
> > > regards, Göran
> >
> > I think you probably do.  Perhaps it acts differently on Win98 than on
>
> Win95.
>
> >  But If I open Squeak to the initial dialog and then grab the corner of
>
> the
>
> > window and drag it down, the window resizes, but the working area does
>
> not.
>
> > Nor does the color extend beyond the original size.  (I haven't tried
> > shrinking, but my guess would be that the size would be maintained.  I
>
> would
>
> > hope that it would be possible to scroll the containing window so as to
> > access all parts of the Squeak area, but, as I said, I haven't tried
>
> this.)



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